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Brandon Tan just got banned.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brandontan91/status/1045830939350200321
That's what you get for being famous and advertising on Twitter that you break the ToS.

Asked by gluglumaster5 years 5 months ago
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finally...

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Who is Brandon Tan?

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He is a famous Pokemon Go player, notorious for holding the highest amount of EXP (in a single account) in the world. A very stupid reason to be famous if you ask me, but I guess that's what happens in a game that lacks endgame content after reaching the max level. Unfortunately, this got him to become a leader in the online PoGO community.
He owns several level 40 accounts and appears frequently in videos belonging to the most popular PoGO Youtubers that don't condone him despite the fact that he is not shy about breaking the TOS left and right by holding so many accounts and making a living out of Pokemon GO by selling overpriced rare catches and "raid boss" packages.

The banHAMMER has finally squashed him down today, it seems. We'll have to wait to see if it sticks or if Niantic will back down from this decision. I personally do not give a damn since his existence is completely irrelevant to me, I just know he exists because or Prodigies Nation and Trainer Tips videos.

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I'm sure many other reasons than multi-accounting, but there really is no reason to limit pokemon to 1500 per player. What if he had 1500 maxed pokemon already?

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Maybe his dream was to get 1 billion xp, but he couldn’t because he couldn’t catch anymore w/o throwing away his maxed 100% Fearow.

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The guy that got banned is good (he played 100 times more than you). You aren't privy to all his reasons to have more than one account. For some it is an unplayable game with only 1500 slots.

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So?
He cheated
Publicly
Many times
And not just multi-accounting

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IMO he beat the entire game at 500 million XP. Why keep on catching when you have to transfer better Pokémon than you are even going to catch?

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by loch90 5 years 6 months ago

What did he do? What part of TOS did he violate specifically?

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Multi-accounting and he runs a paid catching service

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Thanks, that is nasty. I dont know which is worst, offering a service for money, or buying it. I rather go hunt mew2 myself, more fun that way.

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Not sure who's the stupidest, the person who pays someone to catch Pokémon or the person who advertises the fact on YouTube....

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Can someone please explain how that (selling Mewtwo) actually works?

I mean, the price varies based on the IV, but how can that work?

If it's thru trading, then the IVs will change during the trade, so that can't work.
Or does he log on to someone elses account when doing a raid? But that doesn't work either because you can't know the IV before doing the raid.

Am I missing something?

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He is logging and raiding with your account. I was wondering the same thing about the price, most likely if you go the high IV route, he is raiding your account until he gets that IV, and for any IV he only catch the first 2 Mewtwo, if they happen to be high IV, that's still in the any IV category.
btw, Banning his account doesn't stop him from keeping this catch service going.

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by loch90 5 years 6 months ago

So this guy violated the TOS in a wrong way. He should have create videos and post on YouTube, then ask viewers to pay him. That should get around the issue.

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by hkn 5 years 6 months ago

I wonder how much revenue they will lose from this.

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You mean from him alone? If he stopped playing altogether maybe a couple thousand dollars every two days, judging by his playing style. But I read Niantic just crossed the 2 billion mark in revenue, so I think they will be fine. For a game that doesn't push its players into spending too hard compared to other games, it is doing fairly well. One fewer whale won't make much difference.

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by Sebhes 5 years 6 months ago

Now the other 2 million multi accounters

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I don't think it's because of the multiaccounting, I think it's the payed catching service that got him.

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>e-celebs
I had zero idea who this clown was until this post. What a fucking tool, I'm glad he got the hammer.

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Plays pogo for a living. sells virtual objects as part of his living. Has multiple lvl 40 accounts.

I don't want to sound as a racist. But how very asian.

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by hkn 5 years 6 months ago

Update: His account has been suspended for 30 days, not permanently banned. Nevertheless, I hope it makes other whales think twice about why they are spending so much money on this game.

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I wonder what XP some of the friend bot people have. I question whether catching/evolving can keep up with endless XP friending.

As you probably know, many people with an extra account are minnows, very cheap. I doubt Niantic was wanting to permanently delete their most avid player. He could just say, game got boring and his main account couldn’t do anything else.

I don’t watch YouTube, but I do bet it wasn’t just him catching every single day...just like it wouldn’t be just him catching you 10 Mewtwo.

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